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23Sep

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North Korea, USA

Fears of Nuclear War Grow After Trump’s Threat to Annihilate North Korea

NOVANEWS By Alex Lantier World Socialist Web Site US President Donald Trump’s fascistic tirade at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, in which he declared Washington “ready, willing and able” to “totally destroy North Korea,” shocked and horrified people around the world yesterday. The North Korean regime’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) warned that it might now attack US targets if it detects that US forces are preparing to destroy it. The KCNA said Pyongyang would prepare a “resolute and pre-emptive strike if they show any slight sign of provocation. In case the US opts for confrontation and war at last… it will meet horrible nuclear strike and miserable and final ruin.” As UN officials and the world’s other major powers react to Trump’s speech, it is ever c...

23Sep

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North Korea, UN, USA

UN Security Council Resolution 2375 on North Korea: Preparation for War?

NOVANEWS “Decapitation Units” expose the US-ROK Axis of State Terrorism By Carla Stea Global Research There is now a discernible pattern to US manipulation of the UN Security Council when it wants UN endorsement for US-NATO acts of aggression. It is a formula which led to the destruction of Iraq and Libya, and in 1950-1953 led to the destruction of North Korea and most of South Korea. This deadly trajectory is once again becoming visible, and the code is revealed in the three words: “all necessary measures,” which are deciphered to mean US-NATO aggressive war. This formula begins with sanctions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter: approximately eleven sanctions have been inflicted upon North Korea, and four presidential statements. The sanctions are, in themselves aggressive ...

23Sep

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Kim Jong-Un Delivers Rare Personal Address to Donald Trump

NOVANEWS Kim Jong-Un’s full statement is reproduced below. By Adam Garrie and Kim Jong-un The Duran North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has offered a rare personal statement in the aftermath of the US President’s remarks at the United Nations General Assembly which threatened the destruction of North Korea. Additionally, Donald Trump referred to the man North Koreans call the Great Marshall as “Rocket Man”, in an apparent reference to a song by the musician Elton John. Kim Jong-Un’s personal reply is reproduced below in its entirety: The speech made by the US president in his maiden address on the UN arena in the prevailing serious circumstances, in which the situation on the Korean peninsula has been rendered tense as never before and is inching closer to a touch-and-go state, ...

21Sep

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Iran, North Korea, USA, Venezuela

Unmasked: Trump Doctrine Vows Carnage for New Axis of Evil

NOVANEWS North Korea, Iran, Venezuela are targets in "compassionate" America's war on the "wicked few." It's almost as though Washington felt its hegemony threatened By: Pepe Escobar Asia Times Featured image: Paul Delaroche, Napoléon à Fontainebleau, 1840. With other global powers increasingly at odds with US foreign policy under Donald Trump, the nation’s hegemony on the world stage may soon face its own crisis point. Photo: Wikimedia Commons This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of “principled realism” – as spun by the White House. President Trump at the UN was “American carnage,” to borrow a phrase previously deployed by his nativist speechwriter Stephen Miller. One should allow the enormity of what just happened to sink in, slowly. The presiden...

18Sep

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Trump Threatens North Korea with “Effective and Overwhelming” Military Force

NOVANEWS By Peter Symonds World Socialist In the wake of North Korea’s missile launch, US President Trump and his top officials have once again threatened to use military force to end the supposed threat posed by the small, economically backward country and its limited nuclear arsenal. Speaking at an Air Force installation outside Washington, Trump condemned North Korea and declared that the US would “defend our people, our nations, and our civilization, from all who dare to threaten our way of life.” Against the backdrop of a nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bomber, Trump told the assembled Air Force personnel: “After seeing your capabilities and commitment here today, I am more confident than ever that our options in addressing this threat are both effective and overwhelming....

18Sep

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US to Blame for North Korea’s Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Programs

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research Longstanding US hostility toward the DPRK poses a serious threat to its security – its leadership acting rationally to defend itself against feared US aggression. Failure to develop the strongest possible deterrent would be irresponsible. The menace America poses forced North Korea to prepare for the worst. The lesson of defenseless nations victimized by US aggression is not lost on its government and military officials. The root of the problem on the Korean peninsula lies in Washington, not Pyongyang. “The nature of the North Korea nuclear problem is a security issue. The core of it is the conflict between the US and North Korea,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying explained, adding: “The cause of escalating tensi...

16Sep

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Iran, North Korea, Russia

Congress Approves Sanctions on Iran, Russia And North Korea

NOVANEWS Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,October 2017, pp. 30-31 Special Report By Shirl McArthur AS REPORTED IN previous issues, AIPAC strongly promoted S. 722, introduced in March by Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), a wide-ranging measure to impose sanctions “in relation to Iran’s ballistic missile program, support for acts of international terrorism, and violations of human rights.” But before the bill was brought to a vote by the full Senate, a Democratic amendment adding sanctions on Russia to the bill was agreed to by a vote of 97-2. The amendment also included a provision giving Congress the power to block any presidential effort to independently scale back existing Russian sanctions. On June 15, the Senate passed the amended bill by a vote of 98-2. The no votes were cast by Sen...

16Sep

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It’s a Mad, M.A.D. World: North Korea’s Potential Arms Exports Reshape East-West Geopolitics

NOVANEWS By Ian Greenhalgh It’s a Mad, M.A.D. World North Korea’s Potential Arms Exports Reshape East-West Geopolitics Asymmetric M.A.D. – Kim, Assad, Xi & Putin: How Dr. Strangelove’s Cats Can Eat Trump’s & Bibi’s M.A.D. Canaries Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.) works well against those who do not have covert defences and against those who fear their own destruction. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un certainly wants to assure his own survival, but Kim is willing to engage in a “scorched earth” policy against South Korea and others if U.S. President Donald J. Trump and the U.S. attack North Korea first. With VT author Jeff Smith, Part 1 of this series of articles on Kim and North Korea (“Doctor Strangelove Returns: How I Learned to Live with the North Korean Bomb“) detail...

14Sep

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North Korea Solution Depends on ‘Containment of the US’

NOVANEWS By John Pilger and RT News RT Op-Edge No one wants nuclear war, yet that is the trajectory the US and NATO are on with not just North Korea, but potentially China and Russia too, journalist John Pilger fears. In fact, he says the crisis over North Korea is just “a sideshow to the main game.” On Tuesday, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger spoke with RT America’s Natasha Sweatte about the seemingly escalating nuclear situation on the Korean peninsula. RT: What are your thoughts on what the North Korean ambassador to Russia said today, that no sanctions will make North Korea change its policies, adding that North Korea’s nuclear program will help his country manage the “hostile policy” of the US? Don’t you think it’s just an excuse for Kim ...

12Sep

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UN Security Council Adopts Revised Sanctions on North Korea

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research Sanctions don’t solve problems. They create greater ones. Officials in targeted countries are minimally affected at most, ordinary people bearing the brunt of what’s imposed. That’s America’s intention. Make them suffer enough to oppose their governments, a failed tactic every time, yet used repeatedly. When actions by one or groups of nations, like Security Council members, impose harshness on targeted countries, their people most often look to their government for help. Where else can they turn? During years of genocidal sanctions on Iraq, their people looked to Saddam Hussein for whatever help he could provide. No rebellion occurred. The same holds for North Korea. Punitive sanctions accomplish nothing but pain and suffering f...